Antique Print Fern Art - Botanical Print A beautiful, delicate, quality chromolithograph from a rare British fern book of the era, when the Victorian "fern craze" was at its height.
Ferns were a national obsession in Victorian England - young ladies were encouraged to develop an interest in nature and many would while away happy hours in the study of these lovely plants. Ferneries were constructed and housed different specimens.
"Ferns, like most things in nature, are responsive to thoughtful tenderness, and repay that consideration which, consists, not in expensive outlay, but rather in loving study of a plant's likings and dislikings."This lovely print has the words 'Plate2' at the top and numbers next to the different species.
1. Bracken (Pinna of frond with portion of rachis) (pteris aquilina)
2. Hartstongue (upper side of frond) (Scolopendrium vulgare)
3. Hartstongue (underside of frond)
4. Hard Fern (Barren frond) (Blechnum spicant)
5. Hard Fern (Fertile frond)
Among the most familiar of ferns, the brackens or 'common Brakes', can be seen on some hilly slope, by the margin of an open stream, under the shelter of a little wood, or upon the undulation surface of some wide extending common. |
